The Flexible Packaging Blog

Reviews, trends, and tips covering all things flexible packaging to protect your products and your bottom line.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance

By: David Roberge
August 20th, 2015

Better yet, why buy another one? One of the significant advantages to outsourcing is preservation of capital. In many cases, we've got the equipment available to provide a final packaged product that sells itself.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance

By: David Roberge
August 13th, 2015

The Price is the Price is the Price, unless it's A-La-Carte. Traditionally, people price their product assuming that everyone needs everything. Rarely do we find that all of our customers need the same things. The actual price of a product is dependent on many aspects of the purchase.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance | Investment

By: David Roberge
August 6th, 2015

Until It Is. In today's high-pressure business environment, with fewer people doing more work, we tend to focus only on what's urgent. The time-tested priority matrix and the time-tested risk matrix, when blended together, yeild clear guidance on where we should spend our time.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Investment

By: David Roberge
July 23rd, 2015

Understanding Business Pressures on Purchasers In our business, we get to spend a lot of time working with Purchasing Agents, Buyers, etc. Based on what we see, its a tough job. Here are some of the pressures that our customers are under.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance | Investment

By: David Roberge
July 16th, 2015

Understanding that different businesses have different cost constraints and working to stay within those bounds to provide the best quality product, service, or equipment is what we do best. All of our customers have cost constraints, and they generally fall into a few areas. The first, and most prevalent, is the pricing pressure from their customers. We have a specific approach to helping you with these pressures.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | Technical Service and Support

By: David Roberge
June 11th, 2015

...It Shouldn't Be This Hard Spare Parts.. Replacement parts.. When you are in need of either, you can save time and money by leveraging our knowledge and experience (over 60 years of it)! Our team thrives on, and excels at providing the parts that you need for your packaging equipment.. What parts? All of em! For machines that we sell. For machines that we don't sell.